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Happy Brain: How to Meditate with Eyes Open

Meet Broody the Brain. He has a neural predisposition to suffering! And he’s here to show you a new way to meditate—with your eyes open!

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What’s a Death Midwife? Inside the Alternative Death Care Movement

From funeral cooperatives to green burials, there’s a kinder, gentler, less expensive way to die.

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Making the Cut: Why Choosing the Right Surgeon Matters Even More Than You Know

The complication rates of nearly 17,000 surgeons nationwide.

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The Choice Ahead: A Private Health Insurance Monopoly or a Single Payer

If we continue in the direction we’re headed we’ll soon have a health insurance system dominated by two or three mammoth for-profit corporations capable of squeezing employees and consumers for all they’re worth.

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Eat & Drink

DIY Pickling (and Probiotics)

A simple way to stretch seasonal yields into an entire year.

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Eat & Drink

Scientists: Avoid Nonstick Pans

There are over 3,000 highly fluorinated chemicals that stay in the environment for as long as thousands of years.

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When Chocolate Was Medicine

In the 17th century it was a rare and mysterious substance, thought more of as a drug than as a food.

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Is Play Essential?

Play is built into the core of our brains, the part we share in common with dogs, dolphins, and so many other forms of life.